Duffy, A. H. B.; Legler, S. // 1998
Reuse is endemic in the design process. Companies recognise the concept of reuse, but few have structures for managing and taking advantage of reuse. Correspondingly, little work has been done to ...
Tiihonen, Juha; Lehtonen, Timo; Soininen, Timo; Puikkinen, Antti; Sulonen, Reijo; Riitahuhta, Asko // 1998
This paper presents a method for managing and modelling a product family as a configurable product. The method enables efficient management of a large number of product variants. The modeling is ...
Wartzack, Sandro // 1997
Time reduction of the product development process, because of growing competitive pressure, has an increased importance today. This paper presents a strategy how to shorten the process chain by ...
Tichem, Marcel // 1997
This contribution provides a summary of a number of talks with Dutch companies on product structuring. Some of the issues are: the close interrelationship between the design interpretation of product ...
Zhang, Yan; Duffy, Alex; MacCallum, Ken // 1997
Product knowledge is the knowledge of products concerned with the nature of the products. Product knowledge can be classified into the current product knowledge, that is the knowledge of the product ...
de Roode, Barry // 1997
This paper describes a Design Model to model production machines. This model is used to develop a computer-tool to support the designer in the conceptual stage of the design process. The model uses ...
Blessing, Lucienne T. M. // 1996